Naysberg, you are coming from exactly the same angle as DY, and essentially saying the same thing, just using an analogy instead. You are comparing children with loaded guns, who lack the maturity to use them properly, to particular adults who lack proper responsibility to use the internet. And your analogy would work when referring to those particular adults. My point is that adults can be responsible, attain the necessary skills to make the right decisions, and be in control. And for those adults, your analogy doesn’t work at all. Whereas children generally cannot be trusted with guns, adults who are responsible, are. Children don’t generally have the maturity to use a gun. But adults do. We generally trust adults with guns, unless they’re lunatics. And adults also have the maturity to be able to use the internet properly. I am referring to mature adults in my post. And those tragic stories that DY posted are of adults who DIDN’T have that maturity and responsibility. Regarding children with the internet, OF COURSE it is unsafe to allow children unsupervised internet access, because they generally won’t be able to understand why certain things are not good for them, and how much it can affect them. There will come a time when the children grow up, and will be able to learn those things, and it is very important that they do.
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